CGI Timeout

Keeper has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am trying to have a cgi script execute a command on a remote server and send it to the background ( running security scans ). The browser waits for more data to come and times out, thus killing the scripts. Any Advice? A snippet of the script I am trying to write

print PLEXE "system(\"/home/****/Share/ghostck.pl &\");\n";


close(PLEXE);   

$sftp->put($PLEXE, $REMPLEXE); 

$ssh->cmd("chmod 755 $REMOTERTR");
$ssh->cmd("chmod 755 $REMPLEXE");

$ssh->cmd("perl $REMPLEXE");
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Re: CGI Timeout by Corion (Patriarch) on Nov 03, 2008 at 18:59 UTC
As you were told in the CB already, look at Watching Long Processes Through CGI, which demonstrates, among other things, the techniques to dissociate a child from its parent by closing all relevant handles.	[reply]
Re^2: CGI Timeout by Keeper (Initiate) on Nov 03, 2008 at 19:01 UTC
Yea the CB has been pretty useful, I've been using the site as a reference encyclopedia for sometime, hopefully I can start participating now.	[reply]